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Twenty years ago, record numbers of people who would traditionally have fallen under the spectrum of Labour and socialism, were disenfranchised by that Party forever by its commitment to neo-liberal internationalism. Now, there are similar numbers of people on the traditional ‘right’ who have been disenfranchised by the Conservative Party. Concurrently, we have started to see the rise of alternative or hard-line right-wing parties, the most obvious being Reform UK. As this is happening, there is a similar process that appears to occur to all of these alternative right-wing parties, some very quickly:

 

They slowly turn into replicas of the Conservative Party.

 

Any new party that is formed, especially one which considers itself nationalist in its outlook, has to address the question of where to look to find supporters. I have long argued, and will continue to, that the best places to look are in the inner-city, socialist, working and middle-class areas, where there is the greatest demand for an alternative to the men of the system. However, such an approach is inherently difficult because it means having to deal with opposition and disagreement. It is easier, in the short-term at least, to simply go to places where people already live in an ethnocentric way (which tend to overwhelmingly be wealth, Conservative-leaning towns and rural areas). In other words, it is less effort to cultivate the ‘Conservative’ voter than it is to cultivate the ‘Labour’ voter.

 

What this means is that after the initial influx of idealists, the mass recruitment pool targeted by alt-right parties tends to be the disenfranchised Conservative voter – the racialist Tory. But what these new parties either never realise or never acknowledge, is the fact that the Conservative Party is the product of its members and supporters. It is the way it is, because its supporters made it that way, with their values of liberalism, capitalism and individualism. The ‘disenfranchised Tory’ has actually disenfranchised themselves as a natural consequence of their own ideology, and the overwhelming majority of them do not even realise this.

 

The consequence is that when these homeless Conservatives go into the arms of other parties, 90% of them bring their ideology and principles with them. And 90% of the time, the new/other parties, don’t resist or challenge it, because they just want the numbers and the money, in their immediate pocket. Thus, the process starts whereby a party which might have a set of genuine alternative principles, slowly becomes consumed by Conservative, capitalist and liberal ideology, corrupting its original intentions and founders, and putting it on course to become Conservative Party Mk 2/3/4.

 

There is not a single ‘alt-right’ Party that I can think of (and I wouldn’t describe the NRP as alt-right but rather a genuine third position), that isn’t succumbing to this problem right now, in real-time. Easy evidence of this is to look at much of the online commentary, where you will ever see people explicitly stating that they have found a new political home because, ‘The Conservatives aren’t Conservative anymore.’

 

The main reason why people create and pursue alternative parties, is because they want a genuine alternative to the system. As these parties succumb to the corruption, they make themselves redundant. It doesn’t matter if the policies they offer are slightly more radical than that of the Conservatives, if their underlying ideology is exactly the same. Ideals are, whether people recognise it or not, what the voter actually votes for. The Conservatives are the party of liberal capitalism. Labour are the Party of socialism. The other, minor parties stay minor because they just offer policy alternatives but the same ideology. Nationalist parties which become policy-alternatives of the Conservatives will stay as nothing more than pressure groups or protest votes, and will never achieve any kind of agency in their own right. At the same time, the original creators of these parties then end up marginalised in their own ‘new’ movement.

 

The National Rebirth Party ALONE will be immune to this fate, for two reasons:

 

Firstly, because it is a Party of principles. The ideals of the Twenty Demands are the very reason for the party existing, and they are not subject to change. We do not expect every single person to agree with every single one of the principles, but we expect that, on the whole, people do. The National Agenda must be taken as a collective whole, and thus we do not amend or compromise.

 

Secondly, because the people directing it have an iron resolve. Nobody will be importing failed ideas into the Party, nor be using it for their own ends. Those in positions of authority within the Party know exactly what they want to achieve, know exactly what the purpose of our principles is, and what they work towards. They will not be politically corrupted by the offering of cheap support or easy money.

 

Over the next year, I have no doubt in my mind that the number of politically homeless Conservatives will increase, and at the same time I have no doubt that most of the alternative parties of the ‘right’ and ‘centre’ will follow the exact pattern described before, and turn into rebranded versions of the same party. It will be down to the NRP alone to carry a genuine alternative forward.

 

By Alek Yerbury

Party Leader